Month: November 2012

The National Chairman of the newly registered United Progressive Party, UPP, Chief Chekwas Okorie has revealed that the Party’s Presidential ticket in 2015 general election has been allocated to the South East geo-political zone of the country.

A fight between husband and wife Mr. Christopher and Mrs.Thorpe started on Saturday evening, during a bonfire party. Their son who witnessed the dispute, turned violent and fatally shot his father in a desperate attempt to save his mother’s life.

Wonders shall never end. This aptly described how a cripple 400 level law student of University of Nigeria, Enugu campus joined the league of scholarship beneficiaries simply because he presented birthday gift to the proprietor of Peace Mass Transit during the 2012 edition of Samuel Maduka Onyishi scholarship foundation at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

The National Executive Council, (NEC) of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, RTEAN, Friday, expelled its National President, Olufemi Ajewole over alleged mismanagement of about N131million belonging to the association.

Nigeria recorded 300,000 new cases in 2012., even as the country was ranked as number eight among 12 countries in the world that have recorded a decline in the new Human Immuno-deficiency Virus, HIV, infection rate.

It’s a paradox of sorts the daily gridlock that the Lagos traffic has become. One would have thought that the banning of okada would ease things up a bit; the direct opposite is the case. So I’m thinking to myself that perhaps a large percentage of the people who used bikes as their primary mode of transportation owned private cars.

Cordelia Okechukwu is a director with the Lagos State Ministry of Special Duties who works closely with the youths especially corps members. With special interest in uplifting the standard of health of Nigerians, she assists her husband in operating a foundation for community health support.

Homosexuality is an aberration in both the African tradition and Christian religion. Reverend Father Basil Okoro, a Catholic priest based in Lagos told CHARLES ADINGUPU that marriage is not a contract but a covenant to continue procreation.

Today, in the Caliphate city of Sokoto, Nigeria’s Number Four citizen and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, will be conferred with a honourary doctorate degree by one of the country’s premier institutions of higher learning, the Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto (UDUS).